Review by Reza
December 10, 2004
 

The white lights may never end, but they sure took a long time to get started as Raine Maida, frontman of Our Lady Peace, and Marco DeFelice of Supergarage,  Scott Anderson of Finger 11 and Daniel Victor, a relative unknown hit the stage at the Mod Club in Toronto.

Given that fans drove from as far away as Oklahoma just to see Maida, expectations were certainly high. Victor hit the stage first, knocking three songs off his setlist including  “On Fire,” which Victor wrote for Switchfoot and appears on the band’s breakthrough Platinum record The Beautiful Letdown.

Scott Anderson soon  joined Victor on the stage with cheers from the crowd and sang euphorically about a lost love in “I Hope Your Heart Grows Empty.” Feeding off the energy of the crowd which silently stood and listened, Anderson  pronounced his undying love for “the one who got away.”

Afterwards, Victor sang three more songs, one of which was called “Head Down“, about “just one of those days.”  Soon after, Raine Maida entered the stage greeted by the deafening cheers  of the crowd and sang two consecutive songs,  a P.J. Harvey cover: “Angelene“, and “Liar,” written by both Maida and Victor in Los Angeles in January, 2004. In “Liar,” Maida asks:

               
Where were you in the end?,

Where were you when I said;

I'm a liar just like you and that's okay,

I'm guilty, just Like everyone today.

Maida, who wasn’t his usual interactive self with the crowd, only acknowledged the crowd once when he responded to their cheers by asking them “Do I sound happy to you?” he then made up for it by exploding into both songs and without a doubt stole the entire show away from both Anderson and Victor by showing that the falsettos are still there after being put on the shelf for Gravity, Our Lady Peace’s most recent album.  A perfect cap to the night, all three singers came out for one final song, a cover of Enjoy The Silence by Depeche Mode.

The show was in support of  collaborative album called The Never Ending White Lights Project: Act 1-Good  Bye Friends of  Heavenly Bodies, which Victor began working on the very day he  graduated . He even managed  to nab other artists such as  Jonathan Foreman of Switchfoot, and  Jimmy Gnecco of the Ours among  numerous others for the project. Victor promises to have the album out in early 2005. Maida describes the album as: “A soundtrack for the days when your stars just don't line up.” For more information on the project visit www.neverendingwhitelights.com.